Speaking to Empire ahead of the release of her upcoming movie Flux Gourmet, Gwendoline Christie expressed her enthusiasm for returning to Star Wars to play Captain Phasma if the opportunity ever arose.
“I haven’t read the comics but, I mean, it’s Star Wars! I would absolutely love that,” she says, acknowledging there’s untapped potential in the chrome-covered baddie. “There was a template for a character that people got really excited about. It would be smashing if they felt that it was worthwhile to explore, along with some fabulous action.” For now, there’s always the possibility of playing through this year’s LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga video game as Phasma. “This is the next step for me,” she jokes, “because as a teenager I was quite obsessed with computer games, and I was quite good at them. I think it’s time to revisit them because they could be everything I had initially wanted them to be. There are entire worlds out there [where] we can investigate our megalomania!”
Whether a return to the Star Wars galaxy is in the cards or not, Christie’s upcoming slate is jam-packed. Beyond Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet(“I absolutely adored the script”), she’s playing Lucifer in Netflix’s imminent adaptation of The Sandman, and will be in Tim Burton’s Wednesday series too.
